Comments on: The Idiot http://www.methodinit.org.uk/methodinit/2009/05/17/the-idiot/ Blogging on Philosophy and Politics Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:59:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Anti Citizen One http://www.methodinit.org.uk/methodinit/2009/05/17/the-idiot/comment-page-1/#comment-771 Anti Citizen One Sun, 17 May 2009 20:21:35 +0000 http://www.methodinit.org.uk/methodinit/?p=636#comment-771 I should really comment on "Notes from Underground" which was more condensed than "The Idiot". I also wanted to mention Nietzsche's complimentary words about Dostoyevsky - and consider that it is very rare for Nietzsche to compliment anyone: <blockquote>Dostoevski, the only psychologist, incidentally, from whom I had something to learn; he ranks among the most beautiful strokes of fortune in my life, even more than my discovery of Stendhal. This profound human being, who was ten times right in his low estimate of the superficial Germans, lived for a long time among the convicts in Siberia — hardened criminals for whom there was no way back to society — and found them very different from what he himself had expected: they were carved out of just about the best, hardest, and most valuable wood that grows anywhere on Russian soil. (Twilight of the Idols)</blockquote> AC1 I should really comment on “Notes from Underground” which was more condensed than “The Idiot”. I also wanted to mention Nietzsche’s complimentary words about Dostoyevsky – and consider that it is very rare for Nietzsche to compliment anyone:

Dostoevski, the only psychologist, incidentally, from whom I had something to learn; he ranks among the most beautiful strokes of fortune in my life, even more than my discovery of Stendhal. This profound human being, who was ten times right in his low estimate of the superficial Germans, lived for a long time among the convicts in Siberia — hardened criminals for whom there was no way back to society — and found them very different from what he himself had expected: they were carved out of just about the best, hardest, and most valuable wood that grows anywhere on Russian soil. (Twilight of the Idols)

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